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PRICE TICKET. 7 No. 252,320. Patented Jan 17,1882.

N. PETERS FholM-ilhognpllcn Washington. D. C.

" NITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN KELLER, or NEWYOBK, N. Y.

PRICE-TICKET.

srncrrron'rrolv forming part of Letters Patent No. esa'eao, datedJanuary 17, 18:2. l Application filed August 6,1881. '(No model.) I VToall whom it may concern:

Be itknown that 1, Joint KELLER, of New York,:county of New York, Stateof New York, am the inventor of an Improved Price-Ticket, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being badto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in a ticket or tag for marking the price or otherfigures or words upon goods, of the shape and formed in the mannerhereinafter described, together-With its fastening pin or clamp adaptedto secure said ticket upon the goods, as specified.

Figure 1 is a front face view of my improved price-ticket. Fig. 2 is avertical central section of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of thepin or clamp employed in connection with i the ticketfor securing itupon the goods.

. prepared with figures, words,or symbols printed upon the index-face.Upon the index-face of the ticket, and on or about the median linethereof, are formed'the narrow and yet deep depressions a. Thesedepressions should be of a restricted and small diameter at their mouthon the saidindex faceof the card-ticket, so as to disturb to as limitedan extent as possible the continuity of the surface of theindex-face,fso that said surface will be substantially intact to bewritten or printed upon, as

hcreinbefore described. These depressions a should extend deeply intothe material of the ticket and reach nearly entirely through the ticket.By means ,of these described depressions the continuity of theindex-face and of V the mass of the substance of the ticket is disturbedto a very limited extent, and the strength and durability of the ticketare not lessened, while atthese depressed points no resistance isoffered by the ticket to the passage through it of the fasteningdevicefwhich I will now proceed to describe.

B is the fastening pin or clamp, which is formed of a piece of flexiblewire that is more orless finely drawn, and it is composed of the bodypart b and the two arms I), which are formed by turning or bending theendsof the wire'at substantially right angles tothe body I), and whichare arranged to be parallel to each other, and to be a distance. apartwhich is substantially equal to the distance apart of the depressions aon the index-face of the ticket A. The extremities of the arms I) arebrought to a long-pointed sharp end, as shown. In using my price-ticketthe ticket is taken and then placed flatwise upon the fabric to which itis to be affixed, and one of the fasteners B is then taken and its.long-pointed sharp-ended arms I) are inserted in the depressions a onthe ticket, and by aslight presslire on the body b of the fastener thearms I) are driven through the ticket and the fabric, when the ends ofsaid arm may be turned down" fiat upon the opposite face of the fabric,-as shown in Fig. 6.

. Pricetickets as heretofore constructed, which are composed of a tickethaving an index-face and device for fastening the ticket flatwise uponthe surface of a fabric, have been made with the body of thefasteningdevice embedded in the material of the ticket, or permanentlyattached to the under face of the ticket, and in either case with itsfastening arm or arms, which are to penetrate the fabric, extending atsubstantially right angles from the said under face of the ticket; butprice-tickets thus-constructed are objectionable and inconvenientin'use, as well as expensive in manufacture, for various reasons. Theirindex-faces cannot conveniently be written upon by hand, which is verydesirable in marking the price thereon of the goods to which they are tobe attached, because they cannot be rested flat-- tion from their backsof the fastening-arms;

and to enable the fastening devices to be embedded firmly in or becaused to adhere permanently to the ticket said fastening device has whomade comparatively heavy and large,

and considerable force is required to drive this bulky fastenerthrongh afabric in attaching the ticket to such fabric; and as this force has tobe exerted on the index 'or upper face of the ticket there is liabilityof breaking or otherwise injuring or defacing the ticket by suchpressure upon it, while at the same time the material of the goodsthrough which the fastenings are forced is greatly displaced, and veryfrequently so cut and injured bythe fasteningarms as to causepermanentdisfigurementof the goods. Again, these tickets thusconstructed are expensive in manufacture, and in case any disablinginjury'occurs to the fastening device of any of these the entireticketmust be thrown away and wasted.

It is evident that owing to the forming of my ticket in the mannerspecified, with the depressions on the index-face, I am enabled to formmy fastening device from very finely drawn wire, whereby the cost ofmaterial and of manufacture is greatly reduced, andwhereby the arms ofthe fastening device, in passing through the fabric to which the ticketis to be attached, will scarcely disturb the material thereof, and willnot tear or make large openings in said fabric.

. Myimproved ticket, with described fastener, is thus adapted to be usedin marking goods which are thin and of the finest materiah'as well asthose which are thick and heavy and another the fastening devices, thewhole package forming one that is convenient in use.

What I claim as my invention, and desireto secureby Letters Patent, is

A price-ticket composed of the described ticket A, having upon itsindex-face the deep depressions a, and adapted to be secured to fabricsby means of the fastener B, having the body I), and the parallel longsharp arms 11 at substantially right angles to said body, and made toregister with the depression on .the ticket, all substantially as andfor the purpose specified. i

Witness my hand August 2, 1881.

' JOHN KELLER.

In presence of-- A. G. N. VERMILYA, P. B. VERMILYA.

